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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

a 13 moon calendar for you...

In celebration of summer and my article, Turtle Time, being featured in Rhythm of the Home today, I decided to give everyone the opportunity to have a 13 moon perpetual calendar. You can download the pdf calendar by clicking on the link below.

For those of you who have popped over from ROTH after reading my article "Turtle Time", welcome! This calendar will help you find the current day on the 13 moon calendar. If you create the Turtle Time 13 Moon Calendar with your kiddos I'd love to hear how it went, and please post a link in the comment section if you end up blogging about your experience. I'd love to pay you a visit.

13 comments:

I love your posting on Rhythm of the Home regarding the moon calendar and using a turtle to portray the dates and phases. I however wasn't able to download the pdf file and was wondering if you could send me a copy via email? If you can my email is k_stephensen@hotmail.comThanks!Mama Kerr

Thank you so much for your article and the calendar here. I'm gathering some books to read to my DD and DS about the 13 moon calendar and then we are going to get started. This is opening up a whole summer study of Native American folk tales, not to mention the whole notion of tracking time in closer accordance with Mother Earth. Your article on ROTH is such an inspiration to me, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and insight.

There is an interesting book I came across while researching for this article called 13 moons on a turtle's back: http://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Moons-Turtles-Joseph-Bruchac/dp/0698115848

I also created a version of the calendar that does not have names for the moons because I thought it would be great to have children name the moons themselves after whatever is relevant for them at that time of the year. If anyone is interested in that version just send me an email: elizablessed [at] yahoo [dot] com

We colored out turtle today to get ready for the new cycle in a few days. Could you explain how/when we move the foot object to the different moons? Do we switch to clock-wise after the full moon in order to return to the new moon? I am quite out of sync with the moon as you can tell. Thanks!

translation of last comment...As rulers of the thirteen lunations the Matriarchs Thirteen protect Mother Earth and all living beings, their individual attributes and the gifts they brought to earth. The symbol of Mother Earth is the turtle and its shell, composed of thirteen segments, symbolizes the lunar calendar. Following this information envisioned a turtle containing 13 matriarchs inside Legend has it that at the beginning of our planet, there was plenty of food and equality between sexes and races. But gradually, the greed for gold led to competition and aggression, violence resulting shifted the Earth from its orbit, causing it to disasters and climate change. Consequently, to achieve a necessary cleansing of the planet, the first world was destroyed by fire. Thus, in order to help with a new beginning and restore the lost balance, the Cosmic Mother, manifest on Mother Earth and Grandmother Moon, has given mankind a legacy of love, forgiveness and compassion, guarded the hearts of women. To this end, thirteen parts of the whole representing the thirteen lunations of a solar cycle and attributes of strength, beauty, power and mystery of the Sacred Feminine were sent as the "Mother of the Thirteen Original Tribes", representing the principles of energy manifested in the feminine aspects of Mother Earth and Grandmother Moon Each one by itself and all together they began to act to restore to women the power of love and the balm of forgiveness and compassion that would redeem mankind. This promise of perfection and ascension would manifest itself in a new world of peace and enlightenment, when the sons of the Earth would have learned all the lessons and wisdom attained. Each Matriarch had in his heart the knowledge and vision in her womb and the ability to generate dreams. On Earth, they formed a council called "The House of the Turtle" I'm here, "inventing" my gear so that through the play, women can redeem up with this wonderful ancestry. www.blessedartemagica.blogspot.com visit will be a gift for me!

Wow, I was thinking of creating a 13 month calendar with my childrenonly the other day and didn't know where to start and then a link to your website dropped into my inbox! The universe answers quickly....

My girls have had great fun putting the turtle together this morning and colouring him in.

Only problem is I can't download the dates calendar so that I can see what day we're currently on. Could you email it to me, please? traceybaldrey@gmail.com

I just can't figure this calendar out. Doesn't the moon have a 29 day cycle. I've been counting days on the calendars at weather.com and the numbers aren't working for me. I count 29 day from the day after a full moon to the next full moon. Please help, somebody. I want to do this calendar with my class, but i need to understand it first. Thanks!

Just to follow up on your question...the 13 moon calendar is based on the fact that the moon revolves around earth 13 times in the time that earth orbits the sun. If you divide 13 into 365.25 you get 28.096. That extra not quite 1/10 of a day is accounted for by the Day Out of Time in the 13 Moon system. Here is a good link to explain the complexity with the number of days from full moon to full moon...it is technically 28 days 8 hours. But because the earth changes its position in that time period it takes an extra day for the moon to appear full again.http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/moon-orbit-earth-how-long.htmlI hope this helps! You can shoot me an email if you more questions... elizablessed[at]yahoo[dot]com Peace and blessings~elizabeth

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